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Research Facilities & Centers

The Department of Molecular and Cell Biology is housed in six buildings: Barker Hall, Donner Laboratory, Koshland Hall, the Li Ka Shing Center, Life Sciences Addition (LSA), and Stanley Hall. These building have many shared core facilities. In addition, the following specialized facilities are available to researchers.

Central California 900 MHz NMR Facility
Promotes the understanding of the structures and dynamics of natural products, potential therapeutics, proteins, and nucleic acids at the atomic level. Instruments include a 900 MHz spectrometer equipped with a cryoprobe, along with several other NMR systems.

Electron Microscope Lab
Provides EM services to the Berkeley campus and the academic community at large. The EML provides three basic types of service: 1) education and training. 2) Equipment for trained users. 3) Full service microscopy for pilot studies. All are available to anyone with an interest in electron microscopy: graduate and undergraduate students, post-doctoral researchers, faculty, staff, and non-UC users.

Genetic Manipulation

Gene Targeting Facility(part of the Cancer Research Lab)
This facility has generated hundreds of transgenic mice and made numerous gene-targeted mice. Recently the facility has shifted to using Cas9/CRISPR-mediated gene targeting as this offers the ability to produce gene-targeted mice with unprecedented speed and ease.

Cell Culture and Organism Support

Tissue Culture Facility
Provides cell cultures, media, supplies and expertise on a recharge basis for more than 40 different laboratories on and off the main campus. Provides cell cultures for researchers to take to their labs for experiements, media and materials for checkout, and also allows use of laminar flow hoods, incubators and microscope for researchers who are using cells provided by the facility (on site).

Fly Food Facility
Provides Drosophila food on a recharge basis to over 20 labs on campus and at LBNL. Food is dispensed to narrow polystyrene or wide resin vials, and to 60z. or 8 oz. polypropylene bottles.

On-Call Glassware Washing
On-Call Glass Washers/Laboratory Helpers are deployed to five buildings across campus on a recharge basis to replace career Laboratory Assistants who are on leave or vacation.